Israeli strikes against Hezbollah in Lebanon threatened the cease-fire between the United States and Iran ahead of scheduled peace talks.
Vice President JD Vance said 21 hours of peace talks between the United States and Iran had failed to produce a deal to end the war.
President Trump is citing the unwillingness of European nations to back the United States in the conflict as another reason to scale back or abandon the alliance. And he still wants Greenland.
But the Israeli prime minister said his country would continue its attacks against the Iran-backed armed group.
Europeans and Iran warned that the Israeli offensive against Hezbollah threatened the truce in the U.S.-Israeli war against Iran.
Kristalina Georgieva, the head of the International Monetary Fund, said the war in the Middle East could lead to another bout of inflation and higher interest rates.
As the focus shifts to negotiations between the United States and Iran, no formal Israeli participation is planned.
For Iran’s theocratic rulers, just surviving the U.S.-Israeli onslaught means victory. But the seeds of their next crisis may already be planted.
Britain, France and the European Union condemned Israel’s strikes targeting Hezbollah in the country, saying these threatened the truce.
Israel says the truce with Iran does not cover Lebanon. But Tehran says it does, and it has threatened to pull out of peace talks unless the bombing stops.